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Foundation for Chinese Performing Arts
Summer FREE Concert @ NEC 2026 夏日系列音樂會 at New England Conservatory, Boston, Massachusetts Aug 6 to 22, 2026 All concerts Admission Free, suggested donation $10 at door Age 6 and under not admitted |
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William Suh, cellist
https://williamsuh.com/about/
Cellist William Suh has been recognized for his
engaging musicianship, dynamic tonal color and artistic sincerity in
concerts throughout the United States, Asia, and Europe. A first prizewinner
of the National Federation of Music Clubs Artists Competition, Suh has
received first prizes from the Serge & Olga Koussevitzky Artist Awards; the
Hudson Valley Philharmonic, Hennings-Fischer, and Music Teachers National
Association competitions; and the concerto competitions of The Juilliard
School, Aspen Music Festival, and New England Conservatory. Suh is also a
recipient of top awards from the New York International Artists Association,
Hellam and Naftzger Artist competitions. A recipient of the Aldo Parisot
Prize and Broadus Erle Prize from the Yale School of Music and the Young
Artist Award from the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation, Suh’s performances have
been featured on WQXR, WMFT, and National Public Radio.Suh’s 2026-27 season includes concerts with the Burbank Philharmonic, his Merkin Hall recital debut presented by the Kaufman Music Center, and recitals by Young Musicians of Westchester, Steinway Gallery of Tampa Bay, National Federation of Music Clubs, and the Foundation for Chinese Performing Arts, among others. Notable past concerts include Suh’s Alice Tully Hall debut, featuring Prokofiev’s Sinfonia Concertante with the Juilliard Orchestra and Earl Lee; Tchaikovsky’s Rococo Variations with the Kyoto International Music Festival Orchestra at the Art Live Theater International Hall in Kyoto, Japan; his New York City debut recital at Scandinavia House presented by the Musicians Club of New York; and his European recital debut at the Paesaggi Musicali Toscani Festival in Val d’Orcia, Italy. Suh has appeared at the Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concerts in Chicago, the Friends of Classical Music Series in Greenport, Long Island, and the St. Botolph Club Foundation in Boston, where he was the recipient of the 2025 Artist Award. In recent seasons, Suh has presented cello concertos by Saint-Saëns, Haydn, Shostakovich, Elgar and Prokofiev with the Savannah Philharmonic, Lowell Chamber Orchestra, Hudson Valley Symphony, Aspen Conducting Academy Orchestra, and the New England Conservatory Symphony. Suh’s chamber music collaborations include concerts with such distinguished artists as Augustin Hadelich, Inon Barnatan, Melvin Chen, Phillip Ying, and the late Roger Tapping. He has performed with the International Sejong Soloists ensemble, most recently on their Los Angeles tour and at Carnegie’s Zankel Hall. Suh’s festival appearances include Norfolk, Kneisel Hall, the Fellowship Program of the Bowdoin International Music Festival, and the Perlman Music Program Chamber Music Workshop; he has also worked with members of the Cleveland, Emerson, Guarneri, Juilliard & Tokyo string quartets and the Weilerstein piano trio. Suh’s formative years of study were through the Perlman Music Program Summer Music School and its Suncoast Winter Residency, where he studied under Clara Kim, Zvi Plesser, and Astrid Schween.
Suh holds an Artist Diploma from The Juilliard
School, where he is a teaching assistant to Natasha Brofsky and Astrid
Schween, in addition to degrees from the Yale School of Music, New England
Conservatory and an Academy Diploma from the Colburn School. Suh’s principal
mentors include Natasha Brofsky, Astrid Schween, the late Joel Krosnick,
Paul Watkins, Paul Katz and Clive Greensmith; further studies included
masterclasses with Marc Coppey, Frans Helmerson, Steven Isserlis, Laurence
Lesser and Truls Mørk. A recipient of career grants from The Juilliard
School and the Rislov Foundation, Suh performs on a 1913 cello by Carl
Becker Sr. on generous loan from the Colburn Collection. | williamsuh.com
Sean Yu,
pianist
A third-generation musician, pianist Sean Yu began
studying the piano at age five and gave his first public performance the
following year at the Weill Recital Hall of Carnegie Hall. Since then, he
has appeared in solo recitals and chamber performances in numerous cities
throughout the United States and abroad, including New York, Boston, New
Jersey, Seoul, and Hong Kong. His repertoire spans the Baroque through the
contemporary eras, with a particular emphasis on large-scale nineteenth and
twentieth century works. Recent performances have included the late piano
sonatas of Beethoven, Brahms’s Piano Sonata No. 3 in F minor, Prokofiev’s
Sonata No. 7, and Rachmaninoff’s Sonata No. 2, alongside twentieth and
twenty first century works by Ligeti, Dutilleux, Bartók, and Tania León. He
has appeared at venues including Morse Hall at the Yale School of Music,
Jordan Hall and Williams Hall at the New England Conservatory, Klavierhaus
in New York City, Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, and the Seoul Arts
Center in Seoul, South Korea.
Born into a family of singers, some of Sean’s earliest musical memories include imitating his father’s singing at seven months old. This early immersion in vocal music continues to inform his artistic sensibility. In 2011, he made his vocal debut as William Marshall in Paul Lewis’ Hail and Reign, produced by Troupers Light Opera. His enduring affinity for the vocal repertoire has deeply influenced his collaborative work, and he is an enthusiastic chamber musician and accompanist. Sean has extensive experience performing alongside instrumentalists, singers, and choral ensembles, frequently partnering with peers in competitions, auditions and recitals.
Sean has been a prizewinner in numerous competitions, including the Twenty Fifth International Young Artists Piano Competition in Washington, D.C., the Young Pianist Competition of New Jersey, and the American Fine Arts Festival of New York. His recent masterclass appearances include work with Boris Berman, Robert Blocker, Jon Nakamatsu, Mikhail Voskresensky, and Jerome Rose.
In addition to his performance activities, Sean maintains a private studio of students and has taught continuously since 2019. His teaching emphasizes technical efficiency, structural awareness, and musical imagination. He also serves as an instructor of non-credit and non-major lessons at the Yale School of Music. Sean graduated from Deerfield Academy, where he was awarded the Samuel M. Stone Jr. ’28 Music Prize upon graduation. He continued his early musical training at the Manhattan School of Music Precollege as a recipient of the Rita and Morris Relson Scholarship. Sean went on to earn both his Bachelor of Music and Master of Music degrees in Piano Performance from the New England Conservatory, where he studied with Meng-Chieh Liu and was awarded the Nanna Rose Endowed Scholarship. He most recently completed the Master of Musical Arts degree in Piano Performance at the Yale School of Music, studying under Melvin Chen.
Thank you for your
generous contribution to
Foundation for Chinese Performing Arts
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 中華表演藝術基金會Foundation for Chinese Performing Arts Lincoln, Massachusetts |